Sunday, March 8, 2009

Japan 14, Korea 2 (7)





There was a game last night? I hadn't heard anything.


In all seriousness the only excitement for the Korean side was Kim Tae-geun's 2-run bomb in the 1st inning.

Kim Kwang-hyeon suffered one of the worst outings of his career. He surrendered 8 runs(all earned) in his 1 1/3 innings of work. 3 of the 4 outs he recorded were via the strikeout. Nothing else good or interesting happened for the Korean side.



This game was completely forgettable. Here's hoping Team Korea can put it out of their minds and get ready to play a hungry Chinese team tonight at 630 PM local time. Yoon Seok-min will probably start for Korea. The loser will be sent home.

1 comment:

Eujin said...

Back again!

So leaving Kim Kwang-hyeon in, what are your thoughts? Some people seem to think he should have been taken out earlier.

He was throwing a lot of strikes in the first inning. He is the star. He's young, needs the experience, he's basically taken big game pressure as far as it can go in the Korean league. In all honesty it's a game they could afford to lose. So I was happy to leave him in.

Sure it's not good for him to get absolutely smacked in a big game, but there'll be bigger games later on. They took him out at the right time if you ask me.